McLarenism – TULIP, DAISY, LAUREL

Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity has been stirring up the evangelical world. In it McLaren offers some bold perspectives on how faith is to be shaped. One reader recently commented somewhat ironicly that “Some day our great-grandkids will lament the way their generation falls away from classical emergentism. O where is a MacLaren for today, they’ll cry…”

The great faith traditions of Evangelicalism have developed flowers to help people understand what they belive (often at the cost of what their founders actually belived.)

Calvinists have TULIP

Total Depravity (also known as Total Inability and Original Sin)
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement (also known as Particular Atonement)
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints (also known as Once Saved Always Saved)

Arminianists have DAISY

Deliberate sin
All-encompassing call
Infinite love
Spontaneous faith
Yieldedness of the saints

Now the future McLarenists will have their own flower… the LAUREL. It’s not as soteriological, but emergent types aren’t too concerned with all of that. This is my gift to the future…

Lose your meta-narrative

Authority surpasses the medium used to express it

Ugliness in the world does not equal an ugly world or an ugly God

Rites are to bring us deeper into God’s story

Eternity starts now

Love is more complex then gender

Well there you go. A cut a dry way to understand God. It’s great that we were able to put God back in the box again isn’t it… lets hope he can stay there for a bit longer this time.

Grace and Peace!

and glory to God in all things